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Video version. 508 is a show about Worcester. This week, I talk to Brendan Melican . Topics include inaccurate predictions , the Telegram & Gazette's website troubles , and WPI making non-tax payments to the city .
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Jesse Pack, Cha-Cha Connor, and Brendan Melican . City Councilor Kate Toomey sent Mike birthday greetings on Facebook! Jesse is starting a "support fund" for area transsexuals facing homelessness and other difficulties. The homelessness rate among transsexuals is very high. Cha-Cha talks about her performance in the US premiere of A Journey to Kreisau, a dramatic presentation about Nazi resister Helmuth James Graf von Moltke ,...
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan talk about the Worcester Half-Marathon and public employee pension liabilities. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Brendan Melican, civic gadfly Jo Hart, and Mike's sexy body. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan talk trash and collect trash.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Brendan Melican and Ken Peterson. We talk about Irish, etc. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel includes Drew Wilson and Brendan Melican. A lot of viewer feedback this week. show notes , audio version
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Gabe Rollins joins us to discuss the questions we're using to frame this year's Worcester City Council race. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan discuss the 2010 election. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panelist is Brendan Melican . Worcester Magazine has a great article and slideshow about our screwed-up taxi system. Cab driver Jeff Barnard has a brief comment ; Brendan has proposed solutions in the past. The "vegetarian renaissance" in Worcester continues. VegWorcester has installed 5 newsracks and distributed 1000 veg dining guides in the past couple weeks. Our friend Colin Novick is being ordained a Catholic deacon tomorrow--but the...
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week we talk about Worcester slogans. show notes , audio version
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508 is a show about Worcester. This is episode #100. This week's panelists are Tracy Novick, Brendan Melican, Mike Benedetti, Jeff Barnard, Drew Wilson, Nicole, Bruce Russell, Matt Feinstein, Paul Levitsky, Kevin Ksen, Jesse Pack, and Jacob Berendes. audio , show notes , 2-camera video
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike is joined by Brendan Melican and Cha-Cha Connor . There's a good show tonight at the Firehouse. The Catholic diocese is closing 2 more parishes . A Worcester woman is missing . Street vendors are being put out of business by new city regulations. ( Video ) We read the African Radiant and mention Rep. Jim McGovern's February letter to President Obama (PDF) asking for the 17 Uighurs at Guantanamo to be released into the U.S. We read Worcester...
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508 is show about Worcester. This week's panel is Linda Parham and Brendan Melican. Show notes.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Benito Vega, Gary Rosen, Brendan Melican, and a very special mute guest. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Brendan Melican. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk Worcester and downtown development with Chris Besaw, Gina Migliozzi, Erika Dunn, Martha Assefa, Jen Burt, Asa Needle, Nicole Apostola, and Dante Comparetto. Notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2013/01/23/508-211-paris-of-the-eighties-cafe
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike, Brendan Melican, Shane Capra, Bruce Russell, Jen Burt, and Holly Jones visit an ice rink and talk about population density. Show notes.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk to Lauren Monroe and Adam Zelny of the Think Tank. Show notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2014/03/11/508-240-think-tank/
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Gabe Rollins joins us to discuss the questions we're using to frame this year's Worcester City Council race. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Brendan Melican and Juliet Feibel. We talk about The Pulse magazine's "2017 People to Watch." We also talk about ways in which 2016 was a great year for Worcester, art in the city, and housing policy. Show notes: http://wp.me/p6vFvb-1wi
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the City Council agenda, the Dream Van, and economic development. Show notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2018/01/30/the-dream-van-508-283/
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan make predictions for 2011. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's guest is Worcester City Council District 4 challenger Jacqueline Kostas. The questions: * Why are you running, and how have you been active in public life in Worcester up till now? * Do we have enough housing in Worcester? What should the City Council do about this? * What should the City Council's role be regarding the public schools? * Where would the jobs come from that would keep more of our high school and college graduates in Worcester? What's...
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508 is a show about Worcester. Today's guests are Brendan Melican, Anne Lewenberg, and Rod Witkos. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about Worcester's bad drivers, yuppie diversion, the liking gap, and the beautiful Holy Cross campus. Show notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2018/10/08/yuppie-diversion-508-310/
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week we talk about Worcester World Cup soccer, pit bulls and sharks, business taxes, immigrations, and newspaper paywalls. More notes.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's guest is Chris Robarge. We talk about our new permanent City Manager, eight stolen gargoyles, and Jodorowsky. Show notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2014/10/11/508-250-so-much-stuff/
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Brendan and Mike discuss the stories we tell about Worcester, which ones are helpful, and which ones we should reexamine in 2018. This show was taped in the studios of Unity Radio, broadcasting with 0.0000001 gigawatts of power on 102.9FM in Worcester. It's possible this setup was too much for Mike to manage... Show notes: http://www.pieandcoffee.org/2018/01/10/cheers-worcester-508-280/
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This is a 2-camera version of 508 #100 edited by Jeff Barnard.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan ramble about old-timey Worcester stuff like the 1924 Klan riot and the sleigh business. Show notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2018/06/14/something-about-worcester-508-299/
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Brendan relives his argument with Gary Rosen about Star Wars, Mike misexplains the chronology of the Universal Soldier franchise, and we look at "2017 Annual Report: Worcester Regional Transit Authority" and conclude that replacing our bus system with Lyft & Uber might be "a bad idea" but is definitely not "insane." Show notes: : http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2018/05/22/public-transit-day-of-reckoning/
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Peter Sulski, Tracy Kraus, Krista Buckland Reisner, David Russell, Ian Watson, and Brendan Melican. Our subject: the Worcester Chamber Music Society. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk to Jessica Walsh and tour Worcester Wares, a new store in the DCU Center. Show notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2015/08/20/508-262-worcester-wares/
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This week, Brendan and Clifford Reiss talk about Stone Soup. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Kevin Ksen, Brendan Melican, and Tracy Novick. We talk about the City Council election. We talk about the School Committee election. We talk about a new Worcester video site Mike’s playing with (and you should, too). We talk about a $10 million lawsuit against Worcester for an incident during the taping of the Fox TV show COPS in 2006. show notes , video version
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's guest is Worcester City Council At-Large challenger Tina Zlody. The questions: * Why are you running, and how have you been active in public life in Worcester up till now? * Do we have enough housing in Worcester? What should the City Council do about this? * What should the City Council's role be regarding the public schools? * Where would the jobs come from that would keep more of our high school and college graduates in Worcester? What's the City...
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Every election year, inspired by Jay Rosen, we ask: "What do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes in this year's Worcester City Council election?" We sift through the suggested questions and pick 3 or 4. Then, we try to interview every City Council challenger on the show, asking those same questions. To prime the pump, this week we get some suggestions from Brendan Melican, Bill Coleman, and Virginia Ryan. Show notes:...
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Peter Sulski, Tracy Kraus, Krista Buckland Reisner, David Russell, Ian Watson, and Brendan Melican. Our subject: the Worcester Chamber Music Society. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Brendan Melican, Nicole Apostola, Dee Wells, Nat Needle, Matt Feinstein, Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, Gabe Rollins, and Asa Needle. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we discuss a non-renaissance framing for city events in 2018, MassLive on Worcide, volunteer fixers, Father John Madden on panhandling, YIMBY dynamics, and the sad truth about happiness scales. Show notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2018/08/13/the-truth-about-worcester-official-508-306/
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This week, Brendan and Clifford Reiss talk about Stone Soup. Show notes
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